In May 2019, 187 counties (Not the US) agreed to control the movement of plastics.
This is a common a occurrence with countries like the United States because we don’t have a comprehensive way to recycle these materials.
In order to remove the materials the United States had been shipping them to China before they began to stop taking it from America which led to shipping it to Malaysia.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/11/world/basel-convention-plastic-waste-trade-intl/index.html